Re: Smashing the stack

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<address@hidden> wrote:
> This seems like a rather esoteric thing to do, but:
>
>    a = {}
>    for i = 1:1e6
>        a = {rand, a};
>    endfor
>
>    for i = 2:1e6
>        a = a{2};
>    endfor
>
> This segfaults for me after a relatively long time, presumably since
> the call stack goes up to about 1e6 stack frames.
>
> Is it worthwhile trying to fix this?
>
> - Jordi G. H.

I completes fine (in less than a minute)
on  3.6.1 and on ~2 days old dev version...
(Fedora 16, x86_64)

Dmitri.
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